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HOUSTON -- Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went after 2016 rival Ted Cruz over the weekend at a campaign stop in Charleston, South Carolina, by portraying the Texan as hypocritical and two-faced. "The guy (Cruz) that made this comment was supportive of the guy (John Roberts) he was critical of," Bush told Rep. Tim Gowdy and the audience at Bishop England High School. He was referring to the moment in the second Republican presidential debate in Californiawhen Cruz said, "Yes, it was a mistake" for President George W. Bush to have nominated Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court....

I’m glad there’s a moderate Democrat finally running for president. I just wish he were running on the Democratic ticket. Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, called for “respect” of same-sex marriages on Monday as his home state of Florida began allowing gays to wed following a court ruling. Bush, a former governor of Florida, said in a statement that even those like him who oppose same-sex marriage must “respect the rule of law” now that the state’s ban on gay marriages has been ruled unconstitutional. Do you know what else is the law of the land? ObamaCare. So...

Editor's note: The State Hornet received this letter via e-mail from the State Treasurer's office last Thursday. In the interest of fairness, you can view the Governor's stances on the special election propositions here. Dear Editor: From the day he took office, Governor Schwarzenegger started bringing the Bush agenda to California, dragging our state down the path of debt, division and diminished opportunity. Just like President Bush, who promised to be a "compassionate conservative," Governor Schwarzenegger told Californians he was a different kind of Republican. But Schwarzenegger's special election has exposed the Bush agenda that has always lurked beneath the...

The Minuteman Project gained notoriety in April when volunteers policed the Arizona desert against illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico. Nearly 2,000 miles north of that first effort, a small number of Chicagoans who volunteered in Arizona are bringing the fighillegal immigration with incendiary rhetoric against some immigrant advocates, whom they call communiLindenhurst, co-founder of the Chicago proje Biesada, an ex-Marine who runs a trucking company, said he could relate to the original Minutemen, colonists who said they were ready to fight at a minute's notice during the Revolutionary War. He considers many current politicians to be committing treason. "In the...

The President is looking for solutions to Social Security shortfalls in the future of the existing program. Democrats are looking to extend the time until action is taken so that they can regain the issue as theirs, instead of the Republican Party, which has taken the platform from them. I have a simple solution for the shortfall under the present suggested program of supplementing the program with individual investment programs in the stock market. Since the objection is that there will be a negative intake of monies at about 20 years from the start of such a program and will...

WASHINGTON — As the nation's trial lawyers again funneled tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and their causes in the last election, Republicans were crafting a strategy to choke off that money for future campaigns. President Bush's agenda for the next four years, much of which he will highlight in his State of the Union address tonight, includes many proposals that would not only change public policy but, the GOP hopes, achieve an ambitious political goal: Stripping money and voters from the Democratic Party and cementing Republican dominance for years after he leaves office. One of the clearest examples...

The comparison to Roosevelt is just as strained. Progress for America, a conservative group, has run television ads arguing that Bush, in his drive to restructure Social Security, is displaying the same "courage and leadership" that Roosevelt did in creating the program during the Depression. No one doubts that Bush is willing to take political risks. But he is taking those risks on behalf of an agenda that, for better or worse, inverts Roosevelt's vision of how to increase economic security for ordinary Americans. With ideas like personal investment and healthcare savings accounts, Bush is proposing policies that would shift...

Not long ago, Republicans were trying to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Their worry was that large deficits would hamper growth and prosperity. At the same time, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, preached deficit reduction too. He saw it as the solution not only to the country’s economic downturn, but also to its more long-term economic problems. Meanwhile, Democrats were skeptical. They believed that deficit spending had brought the country out of the Great Depression, and Democratic economists were overwhelming Keynesians. As such, they feared that raising taxes and lowering government expenditures to try to...

During upcoming confirmation hearings for Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, senior Democrats want to screen infamous videotapes showing Iraqis being abused at Abu Ghraib prison, top sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The curtain is raised Thursday for the Senate Judiciary Committee's showdown with Gonzales. The Bush White House counsel will be grilled about his role in formulating the administration's legal policies on coercive techniques in interrogations -- techniques some Democrats believe led to outright torture! Yet it's the grainy prison videos, shot by a soldier's cellphone and never before viewed by the public, that threaten to turn the New Year ugly:...

A more Republican and more conservative Congress convenes on Tuesday, with Republicans intending to use their greater strength in the House and Senate to help President Bush pursue a second-term agenda of major changes in bedrock programs like Social Security and income taxes. "This is going to probably be the most productive two years of our Republican majority," said Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader. "It's not just Social Security and tax reform, it's tort reform, regulatory reform, restraining spending, redesigning the House, redesigning the government." Nine new senators and 41 House freshmen will be sworn in as...

Political operatives on both sides of the aisle are discussing the 2008 election as if it is only days away. But hardly a dismissal of the important issues facing President Bush in his second term, this talk of the next presidential race is representative of the pivotal changes in the political landscape that occurred last November. Unfortunately, the forces of “moderation” are still at work within the GOP, threatening to undermine the tremendous gains made by conservatives in the elections. Arnold Schwarzenegger contends that the Republican Party should move “to the center” (which means to the left) on social issues....

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.We couldn't help but be struck by the real message conveyed by a recent brief in the Washington Post Sunday business section on job gains and losses near the nation's capitol. The item juxtaposed the shuttering of General Motors' van assembly plant in Baltimore with the announcement that new high tech jobs were being created in Northern Virginia. At first glance, these developments seemed like an unalloyed triumph of the New Economy and a clear sign that traditional manufacturing is fading into irrelevance. After all, the Post writer emphasized that the GM...

"The role of Government is not to create wealth; the role of our Government is to create an environment in which the entrepreneur can flourish, in which minds can expand, in which technologies can reach new frontiers." -President George W. Bush Three years. Three tax cuts. An economic recovery—American ingenuity—unleashed. At a critical moment in the Nation's economic history, while a recession was taking hold, America was attacked, and corporate fraud was exposed. In response to these challenges, the President acted decisively to strengthen the economy and create jobs. The President's leadership resulted in Congress returning taxpayer money to the...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, Bush-Cheney '04 announced the release of the campaign's newest set of television advertisements. Building on the momentum from the Republican National Convention, the new advertisements lay out President George W. Bush’s plan for a safer world and more hopeful America. These advertisements will highlight the President's vision for the next four years as presented in his convention address tonight. The advertisements will begin airing Tuesday on national cable and in select local markets. Copies of the book “Agenda For America; A Plan For A Safer World And More Hopeful America” will be distributed in coordination with...

DASCHLE'S DEMOCRAT SENATE: A RECORD OF INACTION AND FAILURE Daschle's Democrats Fail To Act On Homeland Security And Prescription Drug Coverage, Still Have No Budget    ______________________________________ DASCHLE AND THE DEMOCRAT SENATE REFUSED TO ALLOW A VOTE ON HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENT BUSH PROVIDED VISION: President Bush Proposed A Department Of Homeland Security.  "The Department of Homeland Security will be charged with four primary tasks. This new agency will control our borders and prevent terrorists and explosives from entering our country. It will work with state and local authorities to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies. It will bring together...

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